UCI: Earth is losing its fire power
Industrial farming disrupts burn-regrowth cycle in grasslands, study finds
Browsing: James Randerson
Climate warming shifts lightning-caused forest fires farther north
Extreme lightning storms are the main driver of recent massive fire years in Alaska and…
UCI’s James Randerson is elected to National Academy of Sciences
Earth system scientist is honored for climate change studies
UCI maps methane leaks across Los Angeles Basin
Mobile measurements pinpoint greenhouse gas hot spots
Southern California wildfires exhibit split personalities
UCI, other researchers examine differences between summer, Santa Ana fires
UCI, NASA researchers find link between Amazon fire risk, devastating hurricanes
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines. The climate scientists’ findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters near the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s calamitous August 2005 landfall at New Orleans.
UCI and NASA issue Amazon fire season forecast
UCI Earth system science researchers Yang Chen and Jim Randerson, along with NASA colleagues, are predicting an above-average wildfire risk in the eastern Amazon region and an average to below-average fire risk in the western Amazon for the upcoming dry season.